Responses from more than two million people to an internet-based survey of attitudes towards moral dilemmas that might be faced by autonomous vehicles shed light on similarities and variations in ethical preferences among different populations.
Why it's time for 'Doughnut Economics' | Kate Raworth | TEDxAthens
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Economic theory is centuries out of date and that's a disaster for ...
YANSS 115 – How we transferred our biases into our machines and what we can do about it
Now that algorithms are everywhere, helping us to both run and make sense of the world, a strange question has emerged among artificial intelligence researchers: When is it ok to predict the future…
EFF boss Cindy Cohn and McSweeney’s editor Claire Boyle on digital privacy and “the end of trust” — Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher
Cindy Cohn, the executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Claire Boyle, the managing editor of McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about a special nonfiction issue the two organizations teamed up to produce, “The End of Trust.”In this episode: Why the EFF and McSweeney’s decided to work together; have consumers given up on having privacy?; why “Facebook doesn’t really have users or customers, they have hostages”; the current copyright battles in Europe; why the ability of AI to play chess says little about the usefulness of AI in general; surve...
Perspective | Dear tech companies, I don’t want to see pregnancy ads after my child was stillborn
If your algorithms are smart enough to realize that I was pregnant, or that I’ve given birth, then surely they can be smart enough to realize that my baby died, and advertise to me accordingly — or maybe, just maybe, not at all.
Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we communicate and how we are seen. Their devices and services make our lives easier than they’ve ever been before, yet more complicated in unforeseen ways. They are so ubiquitous and fundamental to our lives that their offerings have replaced core functions of our brains. We’re now realizing it’s as possible to get addicted to these buttons, clicks, screens, and scrolls as it is to get hooked on nicotine or heroin. Who, after al...
Startups Embroiled in Debate Over Ethics of Facial Recognition
The controversy that swept up leading tech companies last year over whether facial recognition software is accurate enough to be sold to law enforcement agencies shows no signs of abating. Last week, a group of Amazon shareholders demanded that it stop selling the technology to police, and ...
Is the Opioid Epidemic a Tech Problem? | Note to Self
We visit the Dark Web, where you can get heroin, fentanyl and oxycontin shipped right to your door. This week, the link between online drug markets and America’s opioid crisis.
please tell me this is an art project, because if there's an unironic literal @internetofshit I just cannot. https://t.co/8PbgWbY5Fy— Cyd Harrell (@cydharrell) January 22, 2019
The “Like” button was a huge triumph for Facebook, or was it? Now more than ever we’re all wondering if our traditional definition of “good” design is actually in our best interests. In this episode, we take a look at the intersection of ethics and design.
It's not a value if you don't apply it when it's inconvenient. 🤘. @kimgoodwin #design #ila18rio #ila18 #designleadership #leader #leadership #ux— Katja Forbes (@luckykat) November 17, 2018
What is the best way to ease someone's pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Brené Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuin...
Email “unsubscribe” option: “Send me 2-3 emails a week, just enough to stay in the know!” I don’t even want 2-3 emails a week from my siblings, thank you.— Kim Goodwin (@kimgoodwin) December 5, 2018
